Finch's
The narrator's older brother. He’s nine when the novel begins. He is the ringleader of the children and believes he is an expert on most things.
Jem
Scout’s ancestor. He founded Finch’s Landing, a plantation 20 miles east of Maycomb.
Simon
A poor boy in Scout’s first-grade class. Pours syrup over his all his food when he goes to the Finch's for dinner.
Walter Cunningham Jr.
Forty year old widow who loves to garden, but hates her house.
Miss Maudie Atkinson
The Finches’ Black cook. She has raised the children since their mother passed.
Calpurina
The novel’s protagonist and narrator. We meet this character when she is six. She’s bright, adventurous, and a tomboy.
Scout
Aunt Alexandra’s grandson. He’s a boring and spoiled child.
Francis
A large and filthy boy in Scout’s first-grade class. He frightens the teacher with his lice and his sudden anger.
Burris Ewell
The youngest Radley. He rarely leaves the house and little is known but much is speculated about him.
Boo Radley
Dill’s aunt and the Finches’ next-door neighbor, with whom Dill comes to stay during the summer.
Miss Rachel Haverford
The narrator's father. He is almost 50 years old, and a kind and compassionate man. He practices law for a living.
Atticus
What does Uncle Jack do for a living?
He's a doctor.
Scout’s first-grade teacher.
Miss Caroline
The eldest Radley son. He left the Radley Place as a young adult but returns to care for Arthur when old Mr. Radley dies.
Nathan Radley
The lazy father of the Ewell family. He lives behind the Maycomb dump and spends government aid on liquor. He is infamous around Maycomb.
Bob Ewell
Atticus’s brother who is 10 years younger.
Uncle Jack
Which Finch lives at Finch's Landing?
Alexandra
The boy who bullies Scout about Atticus defending Tom Robinson.
Cecil Jacobs
A small boy who visits his aunt in the summer. He’s a prolific liar and storyteller.
Dill Harris
Arthur and Nathan Radley’s father. Religious to the point where he wasn’t interested in anything to do with the outside world.
Mr. Radley
Atticus’s sister. She desperately wants Scout to act like a young southern lady.
Alexandra
How did Simon Finch make his fortune?
selling cotton
A classmate in Scout’s first grade class. Despite being small, he frightens Burris Ewell. Though he is poor, he’s clean and a born gentleman.
Little Chuck Little
The Maycomb gossip. Tells the children about Boo Radley stabbing his father.
Miss Stephanie Crawford
An older and grumpy neighbor who lives across the street from the Finches. Bravely fights the fire at Miss Maudie's.
Mr. Avery